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Jose Ma. Cuenco, Archbishop of Jaro: Antique photos

December 6, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

 

I’m shar­ing old pic­tures of my grandun­cle, Arch­bish­op Jose Ma. Cuen­co (May 19, 1885-Octo­ber 8, 1972). The fol­low­ing write­up is from Wikipedia, with some changes.

Jose Ma. Cuen­co was the first of six­teen chil­dren of Mar­i­ano Albao Cuen­co and Reme­dios Dio­somi­to Lopez. He was the broth­er of my mater­nal grand­fa­ther, Sen­a­tor Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co. Most of their chil­dren died in infancy.

Pho­to cir­ca 1893, l‑r: Reme­dios, Jose Ma, Jaime (lit­tle boy in front), Mar­i­ano car­ry­ing Reme­dios, Mar­i­ano Jesus

 

Mar­i­ano Albao Cuen­co was a poet, jour­nal­ist and Clerk of Court. When he died in 1909, Reme­dios raised her sur­viv­ing chil­dren: Jose Maria, Mar­i­ano Jesus, Reme­dios, and Miguel. Jose Maria became the Arch­bish­op of Jaro; Mar­i­ano Jesus was Sen­ate Pres­i­dent at the height of his polit­i­cal career; Miguel became a con­gress­man. Aside from pol­i­tics, the Cuen­co fam­i­ly was involved with writ­ing and pub­lish­ing. Their news­pa­per pub­lish­ing house, the Imprenta Rosario, was one of Cebu’s ear­ly printshops.

I assume the young man stand­ing right behind Reme­dios is Jose Ma. Cuenco

Jose Maria attend­ed schools in Mani­la (Cole­gio San Vicente Fer­rer, Cole­gio Sagra­da Famil­ia, Cole­gio de San Juan de Letra), in Cebu (Cole­gio Sem­i­nario San Car­los), and he took up law at George­town Uni­ver­si­ty in the Unit­ed States. It was while he was in the US when he heard the call to become a priest. He was ordained on June 11, 1914.

1914 pho­to of the Cuen­co Fam­i­ly in Cebu: l‑r: Maria, Filom­e­na Alesna Cuen­co (stand­ing left), Con­cep­cion (lit­tle girl with doll), Jua­na Lopez (seat­ed) Reme­dios, Jose Maria, Lour­des (girl in front), Manuel (boy), Miguel (old­er boy in back), Reme­dios Diosomito

Jose Maria Cuen­co was vic­ar gen­eral of the Cebu Dio­cese in 1925 and the found­ing parish priest of the city’s San­to Rosario parish in 1933. He became aux­il­iary bish­op of Jaro in 1945.  In 1951, he became Arch­bish­op of Jaro.

Active and high­ly vis­i­ble in evan­ge­liza­tion work, Cuen­co was the founder-edi­tor of the Cebu Catholic news­pa­per El Boletin Catoli­co (1915–1930), con­tin­u­ing the work of his own father who was pub­lish­er-edi­tor of the pio­neer­ing Catholic news­pa­per in Cebu, Ang Camatuo­ran (1902–1911). He authored and pub­lished close to a dozen books, most­ly nar­ra­tives of his trav­els and expe­ri­ences, includ­ing Arch­bish­op Cuen­co: Auto­bi­og­ra­phy (Iloi­lo: La Edi­to­r­i­al, 1972), which came out short­ly before he died in Jaro on Octo­ber 8, 1972.

The fol­low­ing pic­tures are from Cecil­ia Brainard’s col­lec­tion, includ­ing some pic­tures sent to Cecil­ia by a descen­dant of Judge Lyman Car­lock the first Amer­i­can judge in Cebu, Philip­pines, in the ear­ly 1900s, soon after the US acquired the Philip­pines. As the Court of Clerk, Mar­i­ano Albao Cuen­co worked closed with Judge Car­lock and they and their fam­i­lies became friends.

Arch­bish­op Cuen­co with Gen­er­alis­si­mo Fran­co of Spain

l‑r: Manuel Cuen­co, Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co, Jose Ma. Cuen­co, Miguel Cuenco

The fol­low­ing pic­tures came from the descen­dant of Judge Car­lock who got in touch with me and sent me these pictures.

Judge Lyman Judy Car­lock, first Amer­i­can Judge in Cebu

Arch­bish­op Cuen­co at the LJ Car­lock Mon­u­ment in Cebu (across the Cathe­dral seminary)

Plaza Car­lock, Cebu City

Calle de Car­lock, pho­to from Car­lock­’s descendant

Car­lock Fam­i­ly with Jose Ma. Cuen­co at Chau­tauqua. Jose Ma. Cuen­co vis­it­ed the Car­lock fam­i­ly cir­ca 1914, while he was a George­town stu­dent at Wash­ing­ton D.C.

 

Pho­to from the Car­lock Descen­dant: this shows Mar­garet Louise Car­lock with Andres Borromeo

This shows Mar­garet Louise Car­lock with her Nurse in Cebu, 1903

I wrote about this in my trav­el blog:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2016/02/cebu-philippines-antique-photographs.html

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2015/03/judge-lyman-j-carlock-first-american.html

Tags: Cebu, Philip­pines, antique pho­tos, vin­tage pho­tos, Cebuano, Amer­i­can peri­od, Cuen­co, Jose Cuen­co, Lyman Car­lock, Judge Car­lock, his­to­ry, pol­i­tics, Fil­ipino, Cebuano

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